Lifecoach

Zangeres Sabrina Starke is de nieuwe ambassadeur van het Dove Self Esteem-programma. Met dit programma zet Dove zich wereldwijd actief in om het zelfvertrouwen van jonge meisjes te vergroten en hen te inspireren om te doen waar zij gelukkig van worden. Dove ziet daarbij een belangrijke rol weggelegd voor ambassadrices, die als rolmodel inspiratie kunnen bieden aan meisjes.

Wereldwijd stopt 60% van de meisjes met activiteiten die ze leuk vinden als gevolg van een negatief zelfbeeld. In Nederland is dit op 22% van de meisjes van toepassing.

Wereldwijd is 49% van de meisjes het meest kritisch over zichzelf. In Nederland is dit maar liefst bij 72% van de meisjes het geval.

Wereldwijd oefenen (sociale) media de grootste druk (20%) uit op meisjes om mooi te willen zijn. Bij Nederlandse meisjes komt deze druk met name vanuit zichzelf en spelen (sociale) media nauwelijks een rol.

Hilary Kolman considers herself a happy person, but who wouldn’t like to be happier? So when she learned that her employer, media agency MEC, was going to offer a small number of employees slots in a workshop on happiness, she wanted in.

Think a lottery win would make you happy forever?

Many of us do, including a US shopkeeper who just scooped $338 million in the Powerball lottery – the fourth largest prize in the game’s history. Before the last Powerball jackpot in the United States, tickets were being snapped up at a rate of around 130,000 a minute.

But before you place all your hopes and dreams on another ticket, here’s something you should know. All the evidence suggests a big payout won’t make that much of a difference in the end.

How can we work to change unhealthy habits if we can't rely on self-control? After all, isn't reinforcing self-control a mainstay of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), and other approaches that treat everything from depression and anxiety to addiction?

CBT has a lot of evidence backing it and has earned the seal of approval by the National Institutes on Drug Abuse (NIDA). However, these types of treatments may rely on our prefrontal cortex, responsible for a lot of our conscious thinking, to help us literally change our cognitions (that's why they're called cognitive therapies).  For example, a common strategy is to think of the negative health effects of smoking when you have a craving, to help you restrain yourself.

It can be hard to admit to feelings of loneliness, but one in 10 Britons is lonely. It's not just an issue for the elderly - loneliness is rising among the young. So are we all destined to be lonely?

"No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main," wrote the poet John Donne in the 17th Century.

Some people seek isolation, but few choose to be lonely.

The protagonist in the movie Good Will Hunting, is commenting on his psychologists’ bookshelf, stating that he spend all this money on books and he buys the wrong ones. If we read a lot of the “self-help”-books today you might end up feeling the same way.

There is a tremendous pressure today to be peppy all the time. We need to be happy and positive all the time. You are almost declared as a malfunction if you state otherwise. I am going to tell you what is wrong with this picture, and why it is o.k. to be negative, sad and even depressed.